I made the villain right.

Shi Sheng woke up the next day after being detoxified, and Shi Jin finally felt relieved.

At the same time, she also received good news.

This morning, she received a letter from Xu Wusheng, which said that Yun Youying's poison had been cured and he had woken up. He also said that he owed her a favor and would repay her in the future.

Shi Jin was very proud after reading the letter, because this favor meant that she didn't have to worry about Xu Wusheng poisoning her, and she finally saved her life.

Shi Sheng's problem has been resolved, and Shi Jin has also begun to plan for his own affairs.

Ever since she overheard Xu Wuchen's conversation that night, Shi Jin knew that he would not let her go easily, and he had already realized that she was acting. Now she was in a difficult situation.

They have spies planted in the mansion. Her every move is now known to others. It would be unbearable if her privacy is invaded. She must find this spy.

Shi Jin went to Butler Zhou to ask for a record list so that she could check the information herself.

In the study

Zhilu walked in with a pot of tea and a cake, and saw Shi Jin flipping through the register in his hand with a focused look.

Zhilu put the tea and snacks on the table, glanced at the list in Shijin's hand, and asked calmly: "Miss, did you gain anything?"

Shi Jin poked his forehead, his eyes never leaving the list, and said weakly: "I haven't seen any clues yet." He looked as if he was tired of it.

She picked up the pastries that had just been served and started eating, then leaned back in the chair in a comfortable position and continued watching.

An hour passed.

She finally checked all the records in the mansion, but found nothing. The names in the registers were all normal, and she could not find any clues. This made her wonder if the registers were deliberately forged. After all, if she wanted to plant a spy, she had to make all kinds of arrangements.

She felt that she would not find any results by following the list. Since the spy could keep track of her whereabouts at any time, he must be lurking in her yard. She had to think of a way to lure the spy out.

She said to Zhilu, "Call Lin Yang over for me."

"Okay, miss." Zhilu went out after hearing this, and soon after, she came in with Lin Yang.

When Lin Yang saw Shi Jin looking for him, he knew that she had something to tell him, so he went straight to the point after entering the study: "Miss, what do you want to talk to me about?"

She originally wanted to exchange a few pleasantries with him before speaking, but now she probably couldn't continue the conversation, so she just got down to business. "I'll gather everyone in the mansion to do something later. I'd like to trouble Guard Lin to help me keep an eye on the people in my yard and help me find anyone who's acting suspiciously."

"I understand," Lin Yang replied expressionlessly, and went downstairs to prepare.

At this time, she also stood up and said in high spirits: "Zhilu, gather all the people in the yard to the front yard of Xiyuan. I want to give everyone a lesson."

"Okay, I'll do it right away," Zhilu said excitedly, looking forward to her next move.

Xiyuan Front Yard

It's sunny and windy today.

There were a total of eighty servants in Shi Jin's yard, half of them were men and half were women. They were crowded in the courtyard, lazily scattered around the yard, and divided into several circles to chat together.

"Sister Rumeng, what do you think the young lady is gathering everyone together for?" a maid asked curiously. The heroic-looking woman sitting next to her

"How would I know what the lady is thinking?" A hint of disdain flashed in his eyes.

The little girl on the other side said with some fear, "I entered the mansion earlier than you. I have seen the bloody scene of the young lady beating people. It was so scary." As she spoke, the memory came back to her and she felt a chill in her heart.

"She's been getting better lately, isn't she? She probably won't randomly kill anyone anymore."

The heroic-looking maid said sarcastically: "It is difficult to change one's nature. Who knows if she is pretending to win people's hearts?" She suddenly saw Shi Jin walking in lightly not far away, and she immediately kept silent.

When everyone saw Shi Jin coming to the yard, they suddenly quieted down and stood up, waiting for her explanation.

Shi Jin frowned when she saw the lazy team, which made everyone nervous. Although she had changed a lot in the past month, the psychological shadow she left on everyone was still difficult to erase. When she gathered everyone together this time, everyone felt uneasy.

Shi Jin stood on the stage, looking at the crowd of people below, and said in a loud voice: "Everyone line up, men and women separate."

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what she was going to do, and lined up in a sparse manner. This made Shi Jin anxious: "I'll count to three. If you don't line up properly, you will have to run ten laps around the mansion, one..." She looked like a complete devil instructor. Yes, she was going to take these people to military training today and let them experience the pain of her military training when she was in college.

Seeing Shi Jin's serious expression, everyone lined up quickly without her having to count to three.

Looking at the neat team, he nodded with satisfaction, and then said in a loud voice: "We are the General's Mansion here, and the General's Mansion should look like a General's Mansion. Your discipline is so loose and you are so weak. How can others see our General's Mansion? I specially called everyone here today to train everyone's physical fitness."

"Ah~" Everyone hissed, expressing their reluctance. Sure enough, she called everyone out for no good reason.

At this moment, Shi Jin glanced over and the crowd suddenly fell silent.

Then she said seriously: "Today we will start practicing from the basic standing posture, but we must warm up first and run around the yard three times." She pointed to a servant standing in the first row and said, "Start from the first row," motioning him to run first.

Seeing this, the servants could only grit their teeth and start running around the yard, one after another. Soon, everyone in the yard was panting and gasping for breath. The maids were so tired after running a circle and a half that they had to be supported to run. The servants, however, were in good physical condition and did not have any adverse reactions.

Suddenly, a little maid turned pale and fell down, scaring the maid next to her. The maid quickly stopped and shook her: "What's wrong with you? Wake up." Suddenly, the maids behind her gathered around when they saw this.

One of the maids looked at her pale lips and face, trembling slightly, and said, "She is not dead, is she?"

Shi Jin rushed over to check when she saw the situation. The maids made way for her. She saw a pale woman lying on the ground. Her face changed immediately and she quickly asked two servants to take her to a room in the West Garden and told them to ask the court doctor to check her out.

Everyone thought that Shi Jin would not let them run any further, but he did not. Shi Jin said coldly, "Others continue to run the remaining laps. Report if anything happens."

They could only grit their teeth and keep running. Soon after they finished running, some sat on the ground to rest, while others lay on the grass, looking extremely tired.

When Zhilu saw them like this, his face darkened and he whispered, "Miss, what is the connection between your method and finding the hidden clues? Everyone is being tortured and complaining. It seems that the goodwill you have accumulated with great difficulty is about to be consumed."

Hearing this, Shi Jin was a little unhappy and said, "It sounds like I have a particularly bad character."

After thinking about her personality, she compromised embarrassedly and said: "It seems a little off, but I do this just to be able to accurately pick out the spies, you will understand later." Zhilu didn't ask any more questions and just believed her.

After a few minutes of rest

Shi Jin started to shout again, "Have you rested enough? Now line up and start practicing your standing posture."

Everyone looked painful and lined up reluctantly.

Then Shi Jin demonstrated personally, "Everyone follow me and sit down. Look straight ahead, keep your chest up and stomach in, and place your hands tightly on both sides of your thighs." She demonstrated and talked at the same time, and her movements were very realistic, like an instructor.

The people below also started to learn from them. Shi Jin walked to the team to correct their posture. They stood in this posture for about half a quarter of an hour.

Suddenly, a questioning voice came from the crowd: "Zhilu is also a maid in the courtyard, why doesn't she have to train with everyone else?"

Shi Jin looked over and saw a maid with a heroic appearance looking at her with dissatisfaction in her eyes. She frowned slightly, walked to her side calmly, and said expressionlessly: "Because Zhilu can please me, but you can't..."

The maid was suddenly speechless and could only swallow her dissatisfaction in her heart. She stood obediently and glared at Zhilu fiercely.

Zhilu glared back unwillingly. Shi Jin's lips curled up slightly when she saw this. She found that the longer Zhilu stayed with her, the more Zhilu's personality became like hers. He used to be weak and feeble, but now he has become much tougher.

Shi Jin looked at the people below and said coldly: "If anyone among you is dissatisfied with my decision, you can leave on your own, but from now on, he will no longer be a member of my yard." After saying this, even if everyone had any complaints in their hearts, they could only keep them to themselves.

Everyone in the mansion knew that any servant who walked out of Shi Jin's courtyard would not be hired by the masters of other courtyards for fear of offending Shi Jin. Otherwise, why did she treat them so cruelly in the past, and they still stayed in the courtyard and served her well.

After a while, several maids could not bear it and fell down one after another. They were carried back to the room. The court doctor saw that more and more patients were being carried into the room, and his head felt buzzing. He suspected that Shi Jin couldn't bear to see him have a few days of idleness, so he specially arranged for him to live. Fortunately, none of the diseases were serious, so he had no difficulty in diagnosing them.

Then they went on to practice arm swinging, swinging and then stopping, and each stop would last for a minute. Everyone raised their sore arms, sweating profusely, and looked like they had lost all hope in life.

Shi Jin stood on the stage and deliberately chatted with Zhilu, "Zhilu, I heard that praying for marriage in Yue Lao Temple is very effective, is it true?" His voice was neither loud nor soft, just the volume of a normal chat, but in the relatively quiet environment, the words were very clear.

"Yes, miss, are you asking for a marriage? I heard people say that after you pray for a marriage, you may find your destined person in the temple."

"So magical? I will go and take a look tomorrow morning. If I meet him, maybe I can get married with him at my coming-of-age ceremony." She said this specifically for the spy. After she said this, she looked deliberately at the crowd. As long as there was a spy in the yard, she would definitely go out and report it.

When a maidservant among the crowd heard her say this, her eyes turned and she revealed a slight evil smile.

It was unknown how long it took before Shi Jin finished this devilish training. Before leaving, she did not forget to add a rule. She said, "You cannot leave the house at night. If you need to go out, you must ask for leave. If you don't ask for leave, you can just go out directly..."

He paused deliberately, stroking the whip wrapped around her waist, and then whipped it again and again, saying with a dagger hidden in his smile: "If you are brave, you can try it." There was a murderous tone in his voice, which immediately had a deterrent effect.

Everyone gasped, their hearts trembling with fear. However, after being tormented by her today, everyone felt as if their bodies were filled with heavy objects, their waists and backs ached, and they wished they could just rest in their own beds. Who would want to go out of the house?

Dusk falls, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse.

When Zhao Xuan and Shi Wei were having dinner together, she remembered what she heard about Shi Jin training the servants today, so she put down her chopsticks and said, "Master, have you heard about it today? I don't know where Jin'er got the strange idea from, and she actually gave the servants in her courtyard a harsh training, making the servants unable to work properly, and making the other courtyards worried. Master, please don't do anything about it."

Shi Wei glanced at her when he heard that, and didn't rush to reply. He finished the rice in the bowl by himself. After swallowing, he began to say: "Jin'er must have seen that the servants in her yard were weak and frail, and their work was not satisfactory, so she wanted to strengthen their physique. This is a good thing. Why should you restrict her? It's you who are often unwell every other day, why don't you practice with her?"

Zhao Xuan's face froze when she heard that, and the corners of her mouth twitched twice. She wanted to persuade him to stop Shi Jin, but he not only supported her but also persuaded her to train with him. She didn't want to lose half her life.

Zhao Xuan smiled bitterly and declined, "Jin'er is full of vigor and energy, which is beyond the reach of me. I'm afraid my body can't handle it."

She didn't expect what Shi Wei said next, which almost made her jaw drop.

Seeing that Shi Wei was thinking, he said calmly: "The General's Mansion should have the spirit of a General's Mansion. Everyone in the mansion is weak and fragile. It's too unreasonable. Why don't we gather everyone in the mansion to Jin'er some other day and let her train them?"

Zhao Xuan's eyes widened when she heard this, and she was obviously frightened by this sentence. She quickly dissuaded him, "Master, you can't do this. There are too many people in the mansion. If you send them all over, wouldn't Jin'er's body be exhausted?"

"What you said makes sense, so let's put this matter aside for now."

She heaved a sigh of relief after hearing that. She suddenly figured out how to control Shi Wei. That was to put Shi Jin first in everything and consider her in everything. A dark light flashed in her eyes as she looked at Shi Wei.

The night was dark.

In an unknown courtyard, a man in a cloak went out and sneaked through the darkness of the mansion. He walked to a wall as if he was familiar with the place, took out a loose brick, put the note in and put the brick back. He looked around carefully and checked the surroundings. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he left with peace of mind.

Little did I know that there was a tall figure in the shadow of the eaves.

After seeing her leave, Lin Yang came down from the eaves, took away the brick, checked the contents on the note, put it back intact after reading it, and then left and hid in the night.